I'm interested as well. I'm going to be in Europe for six weeks starting in May and I don't wanna carry a buncha shit around.
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Best ebook reader?
I think books will die out soon. 5-10 years.
I'm playing to buy the iPad 3. I never owned an ipad before, is it easy to put and read my pdf books on it?
I'm interested as well. I'm going to be in Europe for six weeks starting in May and I don't wanna carry a buncha shit around.
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It's pretty easy to put PDFs on an iPad, but I'd be leery of buying one. They're pretty overpriced in my opinion. Unless you've got a Mac to pair it with, it's probably much better to get an android based tablet, or a kindle. PDFs are best on a 10' screen like the iPad has, or its similar android competitors.
I'm very pleased with the Android platform in general -- it really complements the hardware, as Linux does for conventional computers. Many software titles are at freewarelovers.com and can be directly downloaded as .apk files and installed.
Some PDF readers allow you to slide-zoom and pan over the document's pages, and another one parses the text out of PDFs into a plain-text (e-book) format, though I haven't tried it.
Gutenberg.org is a good resource for free books.
I've got a nook, its cool.
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the kindle is pretty sweet. altho i dont like using it in public cus it looks hella lame.
Everywhere it is the police who do the whipping and the one in rags who gets whipped. And then the people who sit smugly at their well-laden tables are surprised when someone rocks the table, overturns it, and shatters everything to fragments.
Still is much better than what most people have;I think my kindle looks cool
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I don't have a kindle, but still use the services. If you have chrome(ium). Firefox, Safari, or an Android phone, you can install a kindle cloud reader for free with no advertisements. That has saved me some money on books for school. If you get really lucky, you can find a trusted person in your class with which you could share an amazon account and split the costs of the books. Other benefits is having the book with you at all times if you have a laptop with internet connectivity and they do not take up any space, so no storage and transporting problems.
With Kindles, and I believe other e-readers,people can lend others books for a little while.So if you are a fast reader and have a good friend,you could get quite a few free reads (though I don't think every book has a "lend me" feature).
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I've been thinking about getting a Kindle or a Nook, but I'd hate to re-buy every book in my library, and I don't know anything about Kindles/Nooks/etc.
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I use an 11 inch mac book air to read E-books (I currently have over a thousand E-books saved on my hardrive). I do all my university work on it too. It's very expensive though.
I should of just bought a kindle.
Who says you would have to re-buy every book you own? Simply buy new books on your e-book reader. A kindle is pretty simple and straightforward: all's you need is a internet connection and the books you buy are instantly downloaded.It comes with a short instruction manual as well as a built in one and I found it easy to use.
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That is a computer though, actual e-readers such as the Kindle and nook can be pretty affordable (pending on what model you buy).
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I have a kindle, go with nook though.
What are the advantages?
I really don't know, but my kindle has had major issues that made me sent it back to get repaired.. It's happened three times in just under a year. Either I'm really unlucky or the kindle just sucks.
I don't know if Kindles are capable of reading PDF files, but they are incapable of reading EPUB files, though there is a program that allows you to convert EPUB files in .MOB which is the main type used on Kindles. Also if you are buying a Kindle just for a E-reader, don't get a kindle fire not only is it more expensive several features on the original kindle like E-ink have been removed on the Kindle fire
i can read pdf files on my kindle pretty easily.
Everywhere it is the police who do the whipping and the one in rags who gets whipped. And then the people who sit smugly at their well-laden tables are surprised when someone rocks the table, overturns it, and shatters everything to fragments.
Kindle 4, no 3g, no keyboard - its great. Formats are a pain (it supports text though) but I guess someone clever will sort that someday.
